The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater, 1976-2000U of Minnesota Press, 2002 M01 1 - 347 páginas Spanning a quarter of a century, the essays in this book rehearse, in the movement of memory and cross-reflection, an extensive career in theater. The work of Herbert Blau-his directing, writing, and criticism-has been a determining force during this period as theater encounters theory. Blau's struggle to bring a critical intelligence to the American stage goes back half a century, to the quiescent postwar years (which he has eloquently described in The Impossible Theater: A Manifesto). His innovations in performance began with early productions of now-canonical plays that were hardly known at that time (works by Brecht, Beckett, Genet, Pinter, Duerrenmatt, and others). His experience is as distinctive as his versatile habits of mind and conceptual urgency of style. If the impossible takes a little time (as the title of one essay states), Blau's struggle now continues in a theoretical vein. Performance-and his own compelling writing- has moved across other genres and disciplines into fashion, politics, sexuality, and theory. His diversity of thought is demonstrated here in commentaries about the newer modes of performance (including conceptual and body art), various American playwrights, Renaissance drama, new music and theater, voice, the senses and the baroque, and the photographic image. As the essays reflect upon each other, a kind of cultural history, with inflections of autobiography, develops-which is what readers of Blau's previous books have come to expect. |
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... less the often foregone conclusions in the heuristics of cultural studies or — in the ethnographic consciousness now prominent in the field — the more predictable liminalities of performance studies . Now that it is pretty much ...
... less vanity is still being struggled against . At that specific historical moment , when the key word was " relevance , " 10 the anti - drama of Beckett and the deri- sive spectacles of Genet seemed even more germane than the plays of ...
... less how to teach it , were being put to the test in an unprecedented venture endowed ( few could believe it then ) by the late Walt Disney : the creation of California Institute of the Arts , a combination of the Bauhaus and Black ...
... less reali- ty depending on your perspective or , for that matter , your critical view of perspective with its notorious vanishing point . For there we encounter the liability , even the vice , of representation , implicating the ...
... less fascinating . It is , of course , the fascination - effect that links fashion and theater , and both have gone through phases where they have also tried to resist it . The puzzle has been made all the more seductive through the ...
Contenido
Theater at the End of the Real | 9 |
2 The Impossible Takes a Little Time | 26 |
3 Spacing Out in the American Theater | 45 |
Rehearsing the Resistance | 61 |
5 A Dove in My Chimney | 70 |
An Analytic Scenario | 78 |
The Grail of the Voice | 126 |
Chills and Fever Mourning and the Vanities of the Sublime | 140 |
13 Readymade Desire | 207 |
From Tango Palace to Mud | 214 |
The Group Idea and Its Legacy | 223 |
New Music and Theater | 238 |
17 FlatOut Vision | 254 |
Sovereign Pleasure and the Baroque Subject in the Tragicomedies of John Fletcher | 273 |
Revising the Abyss | 289 |
The Insane Root | 315 |
9 The Dubious Spectacle of Collective Identity | 145 |
Subtext of a Syllabus for the Arts in America | 165 |
Educating the American Theater | 189 |
12 The Pipe Dreams of ONeill in the Age of Deconstruction | 197 |
Notes | 329 |
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